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Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto calls for justice after the discovery of mass graves raises fears they may belong to 43 missing students. Mana Rabiee reports.

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Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto wants answers.
Dozens of students -- 43 in all -- have gone missing and now authorities in the restive state of Guerrero have found mass graves with the charred remains of up to 28 people.
Officials think the bodies of the missing students were likely among those charred corpses.
They suspect local security officials of conspiring with gang members to kill them.
Pena Nieto says he wants the perpetrators brought to justice.
(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MEXICAN PRESIDENT ENRIQUE PENA NIETO, SAYING:
"We must find out the truth and ensure that the law is enforced against those responsible for these acts which are truly outrageous, painful and unacceptable."
Authorities say some 30 suspects have been arrested in connection with the disappearances, including the head of security for the municipality where the students went missing as well as 22 police officers.
But in the town of Tixtla, where many of the students were from, anxious relatives can only despair... and blame the government for what's happened.
One mother wonders what the suspects would do if were THEIR child missing?
(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) MOTHER OF MISSING STUDENT, MACEDONIA TORRES, SAYING:
"They will move heaven and Earth to find them. This is what we're going to do, we're going to do whatever it takes to find them and we will not rest until we do."
The graves are a blow to Pena Nieto's pledge to end Mexico's gang-related violence.
Some 100,000 people have been killed in the violence since the start of 2007.

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